The Electronic Circuit Design Specialty Area
Summary
Electronic circuit design is the transistor level design of the circuitry which is at the heart of all electronic devices. Most electronic design is done by combining together fairly standard subunits that were designed by someone else at some time in the past. The smallest of these subunits are designed using transistors, capacitors, and resistors as components. Someone who specializes in circuit design creates these smallest subunits. Examples of such subunits are amplifiers, filters, comparators, logic gates, voltage controlled oscillators, mixers, sample and hold circuits, etc. This is a core specialty without which the rest of electronics could not exist.
Research in Circuit Design at the University of Arkansas
The following Electrical Engineering faculty are doing research on circuit design. Details on their research & their labs can be seen by clicking on their names and laboratory links.
- Simon Ang does research on the design of power control and power supply circuitry.
- Alan Mantooth does research on Analog & Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, device modeling for circuit design, circuit design for extreme temperature ranges, Si3N4 circuit design, etc.
Courses for the Circuit Design Area
Recommended Undergraduate Elective Courses
ELEG 4243 Analog Integrated Circuits
ELEG 4323 Switch Mode Power Conversion
ELEG 4203 Semiconductor Devices
ELEG 4233 Introduction to Integrated Circuit Design
Additional Graduate & Undergraduate Courses
ELEG 4523 Introduction to Power Electronics
ELEG 4723 Introduction to RF and Microwave Design
ELEG 5533 Power Electronics and Motor Drives
